Media Mentions
2011
“IRS Releases Sample Plan Amendment That Addresses Benefit Restrictions”
Tax Notes Today, November 30, 2011
David Rogers, commenting on a new IRS sample plan amendment for certain employee benefit plans, said that such sample documents “are always welcomed so that practitioners have a better sense of what is acceptable language to the IRS.” Brian Benko agreed, comparing sample plan amendments to Lego blocks: “If you stack [them], you’re guaranteed, more or less, to connect with the terms that are already in the plan, and you can start building on top of it and pick and choose which blocks you want to use.”
Brian A. Benko, David E. Rogers, Employee Benefits
2009
David Rogers was interviewed June 11 by Law360 concerning key employee benefits trends. “There is a constant stream of new regulatory guidance and, nearly every year or so, significant legislative changes” that impact benefits issues, he noted, citing new IRS changes to deferred compensation plans maintained by foreign corporations as a recent example. “We have advised our clients through the legislative process, and now the regulatory process, to assist them with these significant changes,” Mr. Rogers added. “While Treasury is quickly attempting to draft guidance in this area, the effective date of the legislation, as well as the various types of plans subject to the new rules, have made it challenging to provide advice.”
David E. Rogers, Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Benefit Plans
2008
David Rogers was quoted in the August 7 issue of Highlights & Documents about the IRS's ruling against pension plan transfers. The IRS determined that the transfer of a defined benefit pension plan to an entity unrelated to the participants' employer is a violation of the section 401(a) exclusive benefit rule. Mr. Rogers commented that the ruling "pretty much quashes the approach …that people have been contemplating."
David E. Rogers, Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Benefit Plans
2007
M. Miller Baker, David E. Rogers, Michael S. Nadel, Jeffrey W. Mikoni and Michael T. Graham were mentioned in the June 13 issue of Mealey's ERISA Report for representing Crown Vantage’s bankruptcy trustee in Jeffrey H. Beck v. PACE International Union.
M. Miller Baker, Michael T. Graham, Jeffrey W. Mikoni, Michael S. Nadel, David E. Rogers, Employee Benefits, Trial
David Rogers was mentioned in the April 18 issue of the Daily Deal about becoming co-partner-in –charge of McDermott's Washington, D.C. office.
David E. Rogers, Employee Benefits
2005
David Rogers was mentioned in the April 11 issue of the National Law Journal in an article featuring Eric Reicin, vice president and associate general counsel of Sallie Mae. When asked about some of the firms Sallie Mae uses and what kind of work they do for them, Mr. Reicin mentioned Mr. Rogers and the Firm in regard to our representation on employee benefits matters.
David E. Rogers, Employee Benefits
David Rogers was mentioned in the February 22 issue of Legal Times in an article featuring Eric Reicin, vice president and associate general counsel of Sallie Mae. When asked about some of the firms Sallie Mae uses and what kind of work they do for them, Mr. Reicin mentioned Mr. Rogers and the Firm in regard to our representation on employee benefits matters.
